Being A Parent Is Hard!

Being a Parent is Hard! As clinical psychologists working with children, teens, and parents, we are here to make a difficult job just a little easier. Come behind the closed door of the psychotherapy office as we offer insights, hands-on tools, and unique strategies to help you better understand and support your children. Focusing on the challenges of normal development and the more serious concerns that parents bring to us every day, we will discuss issues such as emotional communication, discipline, limit-setting, ADHD, social media, academic pressure, anxiety, bullying, parental disagreements, substance abuse, and more. We will touch on it all. Please join us! Contact us at: beingapersonishardpodcast@gmail.com

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Latest episodes

06 July 2026

The Art of Transparent Communication

Welcome to Being a Parent is Hard! This week's episode focuses on the art of transparent communication with your children and teens. We discuss how to set limits, communicate values, and have honest discussions while still respecting our own need for personal boundaries as parents. We also talk about the need for timing--not trying to communicate in depth when either we or they are upset and not over-communicating in hopes of staving off their anger. Please join us as we share clinical insights and personal anecdotes about learning the art of transparent communication.

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15 June 2026

Helping Our Young Adult Children Prepare for the Workforce: "Ready,Aim, Fire!"

Welcome to Being a Parent is Hard! Is your older teen or young adult child feeling lost and unsure of what field or job to pursue? In this week's episode, founder of Choice Training and Coaching Solutions, Janine Friedman, discusses her "Ready, Aim. Fire" approach to helping older teens and young adults prepare for entering the workplace. Her job coaching focuses on helping her clients better understand their values, dreams, and unique strengths to determine what kinds of jobs will best meet their needs. Janine talks about the stressors and pressures of entering the workforce in today's cray world and how parents can take a hands-on approach to helping their kids with this crucial challenge. Please join us!

Contactus at: beingaparentishardpodcast@gmail.com

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01 June 2026

Living Among the Mean Moms

Welcome to Being a Parent is Hard! This week's episode, Living Among the Mean Moms, focuses on why some moms are unkind, even downright cruel, to other moms and/or other people's children. Whether it's gossiping, bullying, or excluding others, managing mean moms and teaching your children to manage this kind of difficult behavior, is an important survival skill in today's crazy world. When parents prize academic, social, or athletic competitiveness over basic values and kindness, thoughtless and hurtful behavior often ensues. Please join us for some professional insights, strategies, and personal stories about this potentially very painful topic.

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19 May 2026

When a Parent has to Parent Their Parents: The Sandwich Generation

Welcome to Being a Parent is Hard! Our new episode focuses on the extraordinary stress of having to care for our aging and declining parents while still caring for our own children, teens, and young adults. We talk about the very complicated emotional difficulties and time and energy demands that caring for our parents often entails. And we offer personal reflections and professional advice about surviving this very challenging stage of life. This is a phase that is rarely talked about until you are in the thick of it. Please join us for this very important discussion.

Please contact us at :Beingaparentishardpodcast@gmail.com

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24 February 2026

The Stressors of Being a Stay at Home Mom

Welcome to Being a Parent is Hard! This episode, The Stressors of Being a Stay- at-Home Mom, focuses on the personal and parenting challenges that face stay-at-home moms. From the lack of adult contact and feelings of isolation to managing our kids emotional, educational and social lives, being a stay-at-home mom can be extremely stressful. Whether it's facilitating our kids crazy schedules, discipline issues, or struggling with our own feelings of satisfaction, feelings of understanding and support can be in short supply. Join us for personal stories, parenting strategies, and some woman-to-woman advice as we do a deep dive into the stressors of being a stay-at-home mom.

Please contact us at: beingaparentishardpodcast@gmail.com

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09 February 2026

The Stressors and Pressures of Being a Working Mom

Welcome to this week's episode, "The Stressors and Pressures of Being a Working Mom." Join us as we talk about the crazy expectations we place on ourselves as working mothers and how this really affects our kids and their emotional development. We share personal stories and moments from our work to take a deep dive into the unique stressors faced by working moms. We hope you can join us!

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